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F A C U L T Y
VOICE
... Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice. Air is expelled with the diaphragm as with ordinary breathing, and the pitch is altered with the vocal cords. With the lips closed, this is called humming. A piece of music that is sung is called a song; someone who sings is called a singer. Most singing involves shaping the voice to form words, but types of voice instrumental music which use open sounds or nonsense syllables ("vocables") also exist, for instance scat singing or yodeling. Solfege assigns certain syllables to notes in the scale ..."
WikiPedia - Singing
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LAURISSA BACKLIN
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Voice
Laurissa has taught voice at the Conservatory of Musical Arts since 2000. She has performed in scenes from Don Pasquale as Norina and Le Nozze di Figaro as Susanna. As an oratorio soloist, she has sung Bach cantatas, Faure's Requiem and Vivaldi's Gloria. Laurissa studied in Germany at the International Handel Academy with acclaimed Baroque specialist, Jeffrey Gall. In 2006, she was chosen to sing as a semi-finalist with the Bach Festival of Philadelphia Vocal Competition. She is a professional member of the Philadelphia Singers and is a frequent soloist in several churches in South Jersey and Pennsylvania.
In addition to teaching privately, Laurissa is also the spring musical director at Haddonfield Middle School. She graduated from Wheaton College in 2000 and from Temple University with her Master's in 2004.
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KAYLE BRECHER
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Voice, Jazz, Contemporary, Classical, Musical Theatre, Composition and Lyric Writing
Kaylé is an active recording artist/performer with twenty years of teaching experience, four acclaimed CDs receiving airplay across the US, Europe, Australia, South America, Russia, and the Philippines, and a career that has included concerts, festivals, live radio, a TV documentary soundtrack, clubs and other fine venues. She has opened for Maynard Ferguson, Freddie Hubbard, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and Doc Severensen. Kaylé graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BM in both Jazz Comp/Arranging and Performance from Temple U., where she also studied classical voice with Dr. Christine Anderson. She is a prize-winning songwriter, a former member of BMI Jazz Composer's Workshop in NYC, and several of her compositions have been published by Freddie Hubbard's Hubtones. Kaylé has studied composition privately with acclaimed composers Michael Abene and Jim McNeely and has additional credits in Speech Pathology from West Chester University.
For more information, please go to www.brecherjazz.com.
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BILL DEAL
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Voice
As a Columbia recording artist, Bill has performed worldwide with his songstress wife Ro Muziani Deal as a headliner and opening act for Rodney Dangerfield, London Lee, and Henny Youngman. His TV credits include Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas, and the National Juvenile Diabetes telethon. As a record producer, Bill worked with the "Kinleys"-Grammy Award winners in 2000. Bill holds a Master of Music degree and was trained at Julliard School of Music. He is a certified voice and piano teacher and has been teaching for over 30 years to students of all ages.
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KRISTEN TITUS
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Voice
Kristin Titus is a young full lyric soprano who earned her Masters Degree in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy with distinction from Westminster Choir College in 2007. She received her Bachelor of Music from the same school in 2005, cum laude. During her time at Westminster, Kristin enjoyed performing Gertrude in Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel and Lady Billows in Britten's Albert Herring with Westminster Opera Theatre. It was Westminster Opera Workshop that showcased Ms. Titus as Alice in Verdi's Falstaff and Sovereign Grace Church where she performed Mother in Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors. In 2008, the Da Capo Institute featured Ms. Titus as the Queen in the Westminster classic, The True Story of Cinderella by Warren Martin. At Westminster, Kristin had the honor of performing with some of the world's most preeminent orchestras as a member of Symphonic Choir. Notable performances have been Brahms's Ein Deutsches Requiem, Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Handel's The Messiah and Bernstein's Candide, which was telecast on PBS. Kristin's summers have been dedicated to pursuing her art at The Florence Voice Seminar in Florence, Italy, The CoOPERAtive Program, New York Opera Studio, Opera Nuova Intensive and The Princeton Festival. While at these programs she performed scenes that allowed her to portray Countess Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, Mimi in La Boheme, the title character in Arabella, and the Marschallin from Der Rosenkavalier. In 2007, Kristin received an encouragement award in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She has been honored with awards or recognition in numerous competitions including the New Jersey National Association of Teachers of Singing, the Marian Anderson Competition and the Westminster Voice Awards. As a voice teacher, Kristin has a growing studio in Cinnaminson, NJ. She has been the music director Cinnaminson Middle School's Drama Club productions in recent years. Ms. Titus is a voice teacher on faculty at the Hun School in Princeton and the Conservatory of Musical Arts in Haddonfield, NJ. Kristin lives in South Jersey with her husband Jesse Titus who is a portrait artist and sculptor.
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